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Mercury Mail Remote IMAP Server Remote Overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 15867

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Synopsis

The remote IMAP server has multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote host is running Mercury Mail server, an IMAP server for Windows.

According to its banner, the version of Mercury Mail running on the remote host has multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit these issues to crash the service or execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of this software.

See Also

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2004/Dec/45

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2004/Dec/116

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 15867

File Name: mercury_mail_stack.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: remote

Published: 11/30/2004

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

Excluded KB Items: imap/false_imap

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2004

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Mercury/32 v4.01a IMAP RENAME Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-1211

BID: 11775, 11788

CWE: 119

Secunia: 13348